Saudi Arabia: Autocratic tendencies test international opinion as Khashoggi affair explodes


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Issue 1067 - 19 Oct 2018 | 13 minute read

Riyadh is still in crisis recovery mode as the regime tries to find a way to explain the disappearance and apparent murder of prominent critic Jamal Khashoggi, after his visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on 2 October. While Riyadh initially claimed Khashoggi – who in the past year had been a periodic columnist for the Washington Post – had left the building, it was unable to provide any evidence of that; Saudi spokesmen were unable to counter speculation that Khashoggi was brutally murdered by a team of Saudi agents that flew into Istanbul that day.

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